We create opportunities for individuals to participate in the community and take advantage of what life has to offer. Community outings, volunteering, learning new work skills and working in meaningful employmenthelps individuals develop social skills and positive working relationships.

CLASS helps individuals develop active and meaningful engagement in their communities. Our services are based upon a belief that each individual has the right to realize their full potential.Then it's our job to support that vision to our best ability.

The CLASS Mission

The mission of CLASS/Arc of Greater Lawrence is to support, promote, and facilitate the inherent rights of individuals with disabilities to experience a life of opportunity for personal growth and active, meaningful engagement in their community.

Support CLASS

Your generosity makes CLASS community inclusion programs possible.

Your donations go directly to CLASS programs to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autism, so that they might lead lives fully realized.

What happens Outside our Walls ?

​It is our mission to support adults with autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities, to enable their full participation in the community and their leading lives fully realized.

​Watch our video to see how CLASS individuals take part in the many community activities we plan every day.

Living our mission means creating opportunity for every individual, every day.​Your support of our mission means Lynda can take lessons in singing and performing, Jessie can work out at the Y and Edward can learn to cook a meal for himself with ingredients he bought at Market Basket.You can help us go farther when you donate to CLASS.

Hire UsLet CLASS help you take care of your operations. CLASS assembles and trains both independent workers and work crews to tackle your production needs, to get them done the way you want them done. We will customize the plan that is flexible and cost effective for your business.

Do you need shredding services for four hours a week?

Do you need your restaurant benches and menus cleaned daily or twice a week for three hours?

In house or outsourced, our work will supplement your deadline-driven business. Ours is not a typical 40-hour work week — we will tailor the plan to meet your needs and your time.

Proud recipient of the $100K for 100 ProgramThe Cummings Foundation awarded CLASS a $100,00 grant in 2013, which allowed us to move our second location from Reading to Cummings Park in Wilmington, Mass., and where we are celebrating our fifth anniversary of serving individuals with autism and disabilities in Middlesex County.

The Giving Common, an initiative of the Boston Foundation, is a free online resource to guide donors to in their nonprofit investments and enabling social change.